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Having worked on comics like Legion of Super-Heroes and Marvel’s Annihilation event, among many others, Keith Giffen knows cosmic stories. He’ll get to flex those star-spanning muscles once again with a new DC Comics series called Threshold.

The comic will feature two stories — the first, drawn by Tom Raney and titled “The Hunted,” will feature the Omega Men, Blue Beetle, Star Hawkins, the original Starfire, Space Ranger,Space Cabbie and a new Green Lantern named Jediah Caul. It spins out of the Giffen-written Green Lantern: New Guardians Annual #1, and Giffen said it was like “doing a science fiction version of Battle Royale and giving everyone a gun.”

“… these characters and concepts will bump up against the New Guardians characters in the annual,” Giffen told Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers. “So it’s a New Guardians story, but it will introduce readers to this concept. And then it spins out of the annual and the last issue of Blue Beetle. We’re trying to make Threshold a success and get as many eyes on this new ongoing series as possible.”

Lobo co-creator Roger Slifer is in a medically induced coma following after being struck by a car early Saturday in Santa Monica, California, in a hit and run. The 57-year-old comics and animation writer is in critical condition in Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

According to the Santa Monica Daily Press, Slifer was in a crosswalk at about 1 a.m. when he was hit by an older white sedan traveling at 10 to 15 miles per hour. The writer’s friend Barry Dennis, who was with him at a restaurant earlier that evening, said the impact broke Slifer’s collar bone and shoulder; a portion of his skull had to be removed to relieve pressure on the brain.

“He is heavily sedated in an induced coma but they lightened the sedation a little bit this afternoon,” Slifer’s cousin Emma Slifer wrote Monday night in a Facebook post. “He also has a broken shoulder, collar bone and an unknown number of ribs, all on the left side. A feeding tube has been installed with an Ensure type nourishment. His intercranial pressure is within the range that they want.” Veteran editor Jim Salicrup is providing updates on his own Facebook page.